I just noticed with my new install, and trying to rebuild some past flows, that the Node-RED SERIAL nodes are no longer there.

I was able to re-install them, but given the ongoing issues with having to move the Freeboard directory aside, install new nodes, then move the Freeboard directory back, it can be a real pain to install new nodes.

Any chance that the SERIAL nodes can be returned to the distribution? Given that many of the flows we are doing receive and deliver strings on USB devices, it's pretty important to have them available.

While you're there, it would be GREAT if the ARDUINO nodes were also installed with the distribution!

At the moment, I'm not using Freeboard. For the kind of stuff we are all doing, however, some sort of ability to display from Node-RED would be very helpful. Perhaps this is another opportunity to post a poll to ask forum members their opinion?

On balance, I'd say that they ability to easily add new nodes in Node-RED is a pretty valuable feature.

At the moment, I'm not using Freeboard. For the kind of stuff we are all doing, however, some sort of ability to display from Node-RED would be very helpful. Perhaps this is another opportunity to post a poll to ask forum members their opinion?

On balance, I'd say that they ability to easily add new nodes in Node-RED is a pretty valuable feature.

(10-12-2017, 09:49 AM)abarrow Wrote: Perhaps that is the answer! Thanks.

This is some node-red I use to graph and monitor some signalk data - you might be able to edit or copy some of this to speed things up. i never really got on with freeboard so got rid of it a long tome ago. With lots of date the charts on node-red can get a bit slow so it's good to limit just how much is getting sent. Also I log everything to a sqlite database and create some node-red charts from that. If you go the dashboard route and want to have a look at a database just ask & I'll upload some more flows.

(Easy to see where the power in the boatyard I'm in went off today and I had to turn on the solar panels )

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